Drinking Liberally — Seattle

Here we are, a mere 11 days into the Трамп administration, and things don’t seem to be going well. For anyone. It is time for a drink! So join us tonight for an evening of resistance and venting over a drink of choice at this week’s Seattle Chapter of Drinking liberally

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And raise glasses to Gov. Inslee, AG Ferguson, and Mayor Murray for their leadership in the face of bullying ineptitude at the federal level. It’s good to know majority rule still produces good leaders, even as a well-distributed minority of Chumped voters nationwide has utterly humiliated America on the world stage.

The strength of Hillbilly Jesus, like his business acumen, his mastery of women, and his intelligence, is a facade.

After Sally Yates humiliated the Putin-Puppet in front of the world, his response is classic. Not once, but twice in the statement’s opening lines he refers to Ms. Yates as “weak”. A holdover, “acting” AG pulled out of the ranks with no hold on office, no constituency, no real authority over the agency, and absolutely no administration loyalty or sponsorship. Politically? Who could be weaker. And yet this “weak” individual humiliated Hillbilly Jesus in front of his followers, upset one of his most important first acts as Preznit, and may ultimately deprive Trailer Trump leaders in the Senate of one of their most potent weapons against Hillbilly state Democrats.

If she’s weak, what exactly does that make the Pussy-Grabbing Putin-Puppet?

Not content to screw up the legislative politics to burnish his microphallus, Hillbilly Pussy-Grabber is also co-opting Congressional staff and humiliating the Hillbilly majority. Golden-ShowerBoy even went so far as to compel House staff to sign NDAs prohibiting them from informing their bosses. Weakness and humiliation just seems to radiate forth from the Hillbilly Jesus!

It took President Obama six months to hit his first negative on the Rasmussen scale. But don’t worry. Fox News has lots of OpEds on how popular Trump is so it’s fine.

The Story of the Trump administration, is a bunch of guys who start out at the bottom, and with a lot of hard work continue along the bottom, and finally end up at the bottom. (H/T to Flight of the Conchordes

“Most want Mexico to pay for part of the wall.” Rasmussen

GREAT! We asked Americans if Mexico should pay. They said yes. Mexico will get right on that.

Not polled, what percentage of American’s would accept a free Cadillac if offered. A full 90% of Americans surveyed want the FDA to reclassify bacon as healthy to eat at every meal.

“They could have waited a couple days, and they would have done better. I think some of this stuff is they’re learning how to roller skate. They can’t understand in advance, they have to do it for the first time.”

Wow. When a perverted crooked toothless Hillbilly-Hasbeen like Newt Gingrich compares you to a child falling down while learning to roller skate, you know you’ve got some serious weakness. Also a humiliatingly small penis.

@9, We Elites are going to have to learn to pay attention to more than one thing at a time.

The Trailer Trump majority in Congress is fully supporting every single part of this. Watch what they do, not what they say. When the cameras aren’t rolling they are pouring unleaded on the Hillbilly Dumpster Fire. And when the cameras roll, they are pretending to be surprised, even shocked (!) at the size of the fire! The Putin-Puppet’s unhinged weakness is their strength. They will feed off it.

@8 You’re supposed to know how to “roller skate” BEFORE you get to the White House. That’s why we elect veteran politicians to our nation’s highest office; the presidency is not an entry-level job. Putting Trump in that position is like sending a beginning skater to the Olympics. The stupid voters who did that ensured that America will finish in last place.

The Dow is down another 160 points today. The markets aren’t speaking; they’re shouting.

Yesterday, I noted both the DJIA and S&P 500 closed almost exactly where they were on Dec. 20. Thus, the “Trump rally” lasted only 6 weeks, then the stock market leveled off and seesawed within a narrow range for 6 weeks, and now it appears that the “Trump rally” may be shifting into reverse. Markets don’t like uncertainty, not to mention chaos, and the Trump regime resembles a kindergarten without a teacher.

Although the Trump Follies are drawing attention away from it, let us not forget that the terrorist who murdered six innocent people and wounded several others at a Quebec mosque is a racist rightwing Trump admirer.

25 year old Micah Rhodes leader of Portland, Oregon’s Protest against President Trump has been arrested on 4 counts of sexual abuse. He is a registered sex offender and has been in prison before on sexual assault and sodomy charges. Typical democrat scum. You guys sure know how to pick winners.

Even they don’t want to take any responsibility for what is now happening. They certainly lack the guts to have us taunt them with an endless stream of “I told you so,” after every fresh self-inflicted disaster.

(1) Nationalize concealed carry permits; i.e., a CCW issued by one state is good in all 50 states; and

(2) Legalize silencers, so when future Adam Lanzas walk into elementary schools, their guns will go pfft! pfft! pfft! instead of bang! bang! bang! This will avoid upsetting the children with loud noises while they’re being slaughtered.

@18, the real point is they picked Hillbilly Jesus. And they are sticking with him, through all the depravity, through all the betrayal, through all the humiliation, and through all the failure and loss. Stockholm syndrome. The con is total. Trailer Trump America is lost. Good riddance. Elite America will get along just fine without them.

@24, nevertheless, hillbilly Trailer Trump Americans do tend to keeel themselves more than anyone or anything else. In 2015 more hillbilly Trailer Trump Americans died at the hands of a toddler with a handgun than at the hands of a terrorist. Did I mention how much I love kids?

@15, it’s very easy to move coding jobs around and to outsource them. More than anything it comes down to quality of life. The candidates with the most talent have tended to desire a life in clean, well regulated, well educated, advanced, urban communities with good schools, good healthcare, quality homes in safe neighborhoods, and lots of amenities. Not Mumbai. But not Altoona either. It’s been said before, that what Trailer Trump Americans need most is a U-Haul.

Is that really what happened? I mean, as one of dozens of key 2.25 term Obama appointees prolonged in place by Hillbilly incompetence, wasn’t she destined to be fired eventually, no matter what? Perhaps sooner than most given that she was acting as AG.

Her firing was inevitable. She used it as an opening to weaken and humiliate an incompetent Putin-Puppet. Something Preznit Derp might have seen coming if he wasn’t so preoccupied with his “sizes”. As one of Hillbilly Jesus’ defenders I don’t blame you for trying. But you need to do a better job than that.

@30 Yes, there have been a few terrorist incidents on U.S. soil, although none by individuals from the 7 countries subjected to the travel ban. But real men hunt down and kill the terrorists, while Trump and his supporters cower in fear of 5-year-old boys.

Obviously, 13-year-old girls with $300 to their name who are molested by billionaires can’t get justice in our court system, but that won’t be a problem much longer. Pretty soon they’ll be able to carry guns with silencers to these trysts. Pfft! Pfft! Problem solved.

Yates is a terrific public servant, but I think she’s made a serious mistake here. This is a holdover heroism. It’s so easy to be a heroine when you’re not appointed by this president and when you’re on the other side. She made a serious mistake. I think what she should have done is done a nuanced analysis of what parts of the order are constitutional, what parts are in violation of the statute, what parts are perfectly lawful. There’s an enormous distinction between green card holders on the one hand, people who are in the country and have to be thrown out on the second hand, and people who are simply applying to get visas. There is also a distinction between what’s constitutional, what’s statutorily prohibited, what’s bad policy. This is very bad policy, but what’s lawful. And I think by lumping all of them together, she has made a political decision, rather than a legal one. – Harvard Professor Alan Dershowitz, libtard legal mind extraordinaire.

Puddy will listen to Dershowitz every day of the week over the early onset senile schismatic IDIOT Roger DUMBFUCK wabbit! A real legal mind vs. a has been senile fool!

“I do not believe a federal court will view this as a Muslim ban,. I don’t think the court can. Regardless of what the court may think of President Trump’s motivations, the fact that other Muslim countries are not included is going to move that off the table and what’s going to be left is whether the president has this type of authority. Historically courts have said that he does.” – Turley

I don’t think so. That comes from the same witnesses who said there were three shooters. There was one. Things were very confusing under fire inside the mosque. Of all the 50-plus people there, the shooter was the least likely to (a) speak Arabic or (b) appeal to Allah. On the other hand, if I’m an Arabic-speaking Muslim worshipper who has just taken an AK-47 slug through the gut, I might yell “Allahu Akbar!” Whereas, if I’m a white English-speaker, and I’ve just been shot, I might scream “Oh, God!” or “Oh, shit!” depending on how agnostic I am.* You’re so fucking stupid you should be in the periodic table as an inert element.

In the declaration submitted with the AG’s lawsuit, Amazon’s senior manager of mobility and immigration Ayesha Blackwell-Hawkins explained that at least 49 of its employees were born in countries the Trump administration has targeted with its executive order. The company has reached out to these employees—and their families—to tell them to either cancel their trips to the United States if they’re traveling, or to refrain from traveling outside the States if they’re already here.

Amazon is a very successful Seattle-born company, but you got Chumped by a con man on the teevee. So there.

It’s intended to be viewed as a Muslim ban by the most gullible of liberals.

Just as Preznit Putin-Puppet is intended to be viewed as a masterful and commanding Great Leader by the most gullible of hillbillies – which is to say pretty much all of them if Stephen Bannon is to be believed.

But the way this is supposed to work is that Preznit Putin-Puppet gathers his cheer squad into a photo session for the signing show of strength, and the SJWs are shocked (!) and driven to extremes. Not supposed to shock (!) his own majority in Congress and half his cabinet picks, only to have the spotlight stolen away by some nameless bureaucrat’s open defiance. The way he’s doing it turns the show of strength into a demonstration of disorganized weakness.

“Tied” to Trailer Trump America, indeed. There appears to be no turning back from total ownership now. Not even in Congress.

But the question remains in spite of all the “Tweeting”, is it strength or is it weakness? Looking an awful lot like weakness to many, including Vlady. But also I suspect to more than a few Trailer Trump voters.

The AP has reported that Microsoft is working with the AG’s office. The AG’s complaint notes that “at least 76 employees at Microsoft are citizens of Iran, Iraq, Syria, Somalia, Sudan, Libya, or Yemen and hold U.S. temporary work visas.” These employees—as well as other employees with resident status or green cards—could be denied re-entry if they travel overseas or to Microsoft’s Vancouver offices, according to the AG’s complaint.

But of course Microsoft wants nothing to do with your president’s policy. Microsoft is a successful business.

“Expedia believes that the Executive Order jeopardizes its corporate mission and could have a detrimental impact on its business employees, as well as the broader U.S. and global travel and tourism industry,” Expedia executive vice president Robert Dzielak wrote in the declaration submitted with the AG’s lawsuit.

In which the second most detested candidate in the last 100 years received nearly 3 million more votes than Preznit Drumpf, which is hardly a ringing endorsement of either Drumpf’s character or his policies. Our country is now being ruled by an unpopular minority, and they will get nothing but more unpopular as time goes on.

Not everyone gets to vote in an election. Plenty of people are disenfranchised, intimidated, harassed, threatened and so on. Convicted felons are not allowed to vote unless of course their voting rights have been restored. Dr. Bob is in full display of what a pissant he really is.

Not everyone gets to vote in an election. Plenty of people are disenfranchised, intimidated, harassed, threatened and so on. Convicted felons are not allowed to vote unless of course their voting rights have been restored. Dr. Bob is in full display of what a pissant he really is.

Awww… and all those DUMMOCRETIN locations that give free rides, food, IDs, etc to come vote.

Convicted felons are not allowed to vote unless of course their voting rights have been restored. DAYUM straight. You do the crime, you pay for it with your time away from the voting booth!

Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz sent an open letter to employees over the weekend saying that the company “will neither stand by, nor stand silent, as the uncertainty around the new Administration’s actions grows with each passing day.” Schultz also committed to hiring 10,000 refugees in the next five years.

Of course a successful businessman will do the exact polar opposite of what a reality-TV con man wants him to do.

Successful men of business have a specific word for doing the opposite of what your president wants.

You OK with Apple, Oracle, Microsoft, HP, Cisco, et al. keeping their cash overseas until there’s a Democrat president and a Democrat-controlled Congress which together can force taxation of unrepatriated monies, YLB?

What if Trump plans to use repatriation taxes to pay for infrastructure investments, YLB? You willing to give those up because you insist on 35% tax on already-taxed profits if they are repatriated?

No reason Apple needs to bring the money back in – Apple borrows money by issuing long-dated low-interest bonds backed by offshore cash, and uses that money to buy back stock and issue dividends, then takes a tax deduction on the interest it does pay. Meanwhile the cash pile keeps growing.

You really think that Dems have leverage to stop that behavior without lowering taxes on offshore income already taxed by other countries?

Really, YLB?

Girlfriend, please explain that leverage. Show your work, if you would.

(((Goldy))) ‏@GoldyHA 2h2 hours ago You refuse to consider our #SCOTUS nominee, we filibuster yours. You nuke the filibuster, and we pack the bench when we seize back control.

Yeah, except this

I was an acting solicitor general for President Barack Obama; Judge Gorsuch has strong conservative bona fides and was appointed to the 10th Circuit by President George W. Bush. But I have seen him up close and in action, both in court and on the Federal Appellate Rules Committee (where both of us serve); he brings a sense of fairness and decency to the job, and a temperament that suits the nation’s highest court.

So GOP’s at 55 before Dems even get started ginning up a way to block. With a guy confirmed unanimously once before and called unanimously well qualified by the ABA, your efforts to claim that somehow everyone was wrong when he hasn’t been inconsistent since the last time will be laughable.

Goldy, if you could pack the court when you regain control, couldn’t also Trump and the GOP pack the court, um, right now?

At least save this until RBG keels over while straining at the stool during a break from playing

Why are you so certain that your cloture rule will still be in place by the time Gorsuch is up for a vote? If Hillbilly Jesus continues having a meltdown per week its probably only a matter of time before a cab nom gets blocked. Dems in Finance wont even sit for a committee vote for Price or Mnuchin. All the while Bannon is pounding the table screaming for the Trailer Trump Senate leaders to nuke the fillibuster. You get all your noms. But you lose all your leverage.

” … Jerry Falwell Jr. says he has been asked to lead a presidential task force on higher education reform. Falwell … spoke with Steve Bannon, … Trump’s senior strategist, on Tuesday about the role. He says the details of the task force are still being sorted out, but the aim will be ‘to get the government off the backs of higher education.'”

Over the course of the first week alone, we’ve witnessed actions that conflict with our co-op values on issues including climate, the environment, women’s rights and the singling out of individuals based on nationality and belief. […] Accordingly, we do not support the executive order issued by the President on Friday regarding immigration. I have reached out personally to all employees currently in the immigration process to ensure they have the support they need.

Of course a successful business like REI wouldn’t fall for obvious bigotry and fear-mothering.

That’s one of the reasons REI is a successful business, not a con seen on reality TV.

Roger Rabbit Commentary: If Trump’s son-in-law doesn’t last two weeks, then we can expect the average longevity of ordinary staffers to be something like 24 to 36 hours. Soon the government will be staffed entirely with temps.

Don’t leave out their commercials. Like this pillow-hawker, a possible Minnesota gubernatorial candidate and Fox News beneficiary who avidly supported Trump.

“‘MyPillow’ maker will pay $1M in false advertising settlement”

“My Pillow manufacturers falsely represented that the cushion could lessen the effects of fibromyalgia, insomnia, migraines, temporomandibular joint disorders and restless leg syndrome without having any scientific evidence to support the claims, prosecutors said.”

If the campaign for governor doesn’t pan out maybe Trump can appoint him to the FCC or something. Huh! Not related but, come to think of it, maybe the thousands of hashtags being so lamely left here is the trail of our doctor’s quest to be considered for surgeon general!

Dr. Darrell Scott, senior pastor of New Revival Center in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, was a guest of Trump’s at an African-American History Month meeting at the White House. He said he is a “black Trump supporter,” and claimed he was “contacted by some of the top gang thugs in Chicago for a sit-down.”

Taking a swipe at former President Obama, who began his political career as a community organizer in Chicago, Scott said the gangs “want to work with the administration … they believe in this administration; they didn’t believe in the prior administration. They told me this outta their mouths.”

Pastor Scott pizzed off the HA DUMMOCRETINS with this… “They believe in what you’re doing, and they want to have a sit-down about lowering that body count.”

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